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Ranking
By Chinyere Joel-Nwokeoma
Lagos, May 15, 2017 (NAN) The Lagos Business School (LBS) has been ranked as a top global school by the Financial Times (FT) of London.
Mrs Aderayo Bankole, LSB’s Head of Corporate Communications, said this in a statement in Lagos on Monday.
She said, “This is LBS 11th consecutive appearance in the annual ranking of top business and management education providers in the world, done by FT.”
Bankole further said that LBS ranked among the most prestigious business schools globally in two categories: open enrolment and customs executive education.
She further said the FT Executive Education 2017 ranking was published on Monday in London.
According to her,LBS is one of only four schools in Africa that makes the prestigious list.
She quoted Dr Enase Okonedo, Dean, LBS, as saying that the school would remain committed to providing global standard business and management education.
Okonedo said that FT ranking was in recognition of LBS’s continuous efforts at providing world class business and management education, with relevance to Nigeria and Africa.
“Our business school’s determination for excellence has also recently been recognised by our accreditation to the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the association of MBA’s (AMBA),” she said.
Okonedo also said the school had been admitting more non-Nigerian nationals to its programmes as part of plans to extend the benefit of LBS education to other Africans.
She noted that the school would be extending its executive education to other African countries in the nearest future.
According to her, FT publishes the best management programmes from business schools around the world annually, based on quality of learning, staff and student diversity, growth in business and international reach.
Other schools that made this year’s ranking apart from, LBS, according to Bankole are the Harvard Business School, USA, the IESE Business School, Spain and IMD in Switzerland.
Others in Africa include the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), USB Executive Development and Graduate School of Business, all in South Africa. (NAN)
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Edited by Folorunso Poroye/Dada Ahmed